Analysis of Wait a...
Alliston Samuel 1976 (Port of Spain)
As far as I could run
As I watched you fly on by...
We may not grasp why:
As I flew away
Watching me run you down,
Wondering why its this way
in this forlorn town?
How did you get up
on someone grounded as myself?
Still wishing at the well?
Look at me, soaring...
Does that make one free?
Let's set sail on an adventure
Better hope we can swim
As we float away by
The vastness
Willing to take us
All in.
| Scheme | ABBCDCDEFGHIJKBLLM |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 1111111 11111 11101 101111 1001111 01011 11111 111011 110101 11110 11111 11111010 101111 111011 010 10111 10 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 407 |
| Words | 92 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 305 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
About this poem
So, I guess I decided to do a bit of role reversal on this one which ended up transcending the limitations of the moment...
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Written on July 22, 2022
Submitted on July 22, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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